[syslog-ng] ELK herd to scale
Scot Needy
scotrn at gmail.com
Thu Apr 21 16:33:31 CEST 2016
Yes, It is “unsupported” but I did not want to start out completing the deployment behind a release.
I think its getting a bit off topic. The decision I am trying to make is on logstash.
Without it I seem to loose the ability to use a majority of the public templates out there for Kibanna dashboards and log filter templates from the logstash community.
With logstash I need to daisy chain this log management process to import data and my ASA logs are always behind.
I still have a couple of weeks of testing and tuning and figuring out stuff before I start my chef cookbooks.
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elasticsearch-2.3.1 from RPM
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> On Apr 21, 2016, at 9:06 AM, Czanik, Péter <peter.czanik at balabit.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> ES2 support is only available in the not yet released syslog-ng OSE 3.8 (I have some unofficial RPMs, but ES2 part is not yet tested, I plan to do it next week). 3.7, which is the latest stable release, only supports ES1.
>
> Yotu can name you index whatever you like. I named it "syslog-ng_..." as I prefer to give unique names instead of the expected one. The more important part is the ${YEAR}.${MONTH}.${DAY}" part, as Kibana expect the actual date as well. So you can name it: "logstash-${YEAR}.${MONTH}.${DAY}" and configure Kibana easier. It might also help you to use pre-built dashboards, but I don't know, as I always built dashboards myself...
>
> Bye,
>
> Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik at balabit.com <mailto:peter.czanik at balabit.com>>
> Balabit / syslog-ng upstream
> http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/ <http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/>
> https://twitter.com/PCzanik <https://twitter.com/PCzanik>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Scot Needy <scotrn at gmail.com <mailto:scotrn at gmail.com>> wrote:
> ES2 and Kibanna 4 but hold on a sec…
>
> I used your blog as a starting reference. Great job BTW, but I don’t see how the logstash index can exist using this directive in syslogng.conf
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> option("index", "syslog-ng_${YEAR}.${MONTH}.${DAY}")
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>> On Apr 21, 2016, at 3:41 AM, Czanik, Péter <peter.czanik at balabit.com <mailto:peter.czanik at balabit.com>> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> To get started with syslog-ng + patterndb + ElasticSearch, you could use my blog at https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2015/10/how-to-parse-data-with-syslog-ng-store-in-elasticsearch-and-analyze-with-kibana/ <https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2015/10/how-to-parse-data-with-syslog-ng-store-in-elasticsearch-and-analyze-with-kibana/> It shows how to parse ssh log-in messages, and how to display them with Kibana.
>>
>> If you use "logstash-${YEAR}.${MONTH}.${DAY}" as index name, Kibana should find your logs without any extra setup.
>>
>> Which versions of Elasticsearch and Kibana do you use?
>>
>> Bye,
>>
>> Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik at balabit.com <mailto:peter.czanik at balabit.com>>
>> Balabit / syslog-ng upstream
>> http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/ <http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/>
>> https://twitter.com/PCzanik <https://twitter.com/PCzanik>
>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Balazs Scheidler <bazsi77 at gmail.com <mailto:bazsi77 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> well, one thing that is probably a lot faster with syslog-ng is parsing, so I guess it all boils down to performance needed at the reception side.
>>
>> receiving and writing out into a file, then polling that file for changes is definitely slower if you have non-trival amount of messages. syslog-ng receve & parse can happen at the 100k/second range and certainly ES is usually slower than that, but that's the entire point in scaling, right? so if I scale ES to the 100k/sec range, doing this with syslog-ng reduces the load a lot at the data center collector a lot.
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 6:02 AM, Orangepeel Beef <orangepeelbeef at gmail.com <mailto:orangepeelbeef at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> We used rsyslog to receive from all networking devices, and rsyslog<->rsyslog for systems. then I did some addtional processing of the logs for realtime alerting and shove them into ES with logstash. They all complement each other. Then you just need to stand up 1 log collection (in your case syslog-ng) server in each physical datacenter, and use logstash to parse the logs, and lumberjack to send them out to some central ES stack.
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>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 8:26 PM, Scot Needy <scotrn at gmail.com <mailto:scotrn at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> That seems to be the way most people are doing it but I think in absence of syslog-ng not in place of it.
>> But I don’t like the idea of waiting every XX minutes to see my ASA logs.
>>
>> My understanding is the Logstash part of the ELK stack is not required if you use the syslog-ng Elasticsearch plugin.
>> pro Realtime data
>> pro No additional hop for your data.
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>>> On Apr 20, 2016, at 10:46 PM, Orangepeel Beef <orangepeelbeef at gmail.com <mailto:orangepeelbeef at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>> They way I always liked doing it was to send all the logs via syslog regularly to your central collection server and use logstash file input to parse them in and shove into ES.
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>>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Orangepeel Beef <orangepeelbeef at gmail.com <mailto:orangepeelbeef at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> logstash-* index is for logs that have been ingested via logstash of course :)
>>>
>>> every component of ELK scales horizontally extremely well.
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>>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Scot Needy <scotrn at gmail.com <mailto:scotrn at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>> https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=kibana%20dashboard%20template <https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=kibana%20dashboard%20template>
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>>> May have misspoke. Using ELK and patterndb.xml is new to me and I am still trying to learn the mechanics.
>>>
>>>
>>> I started by looking at Google for Kibana dashboard templates, one of the better results here.
>>> https://github.com/markwalkom/kibana-dashboards <https://github.com/markwalkom/kibana-dashboards> Most of the kibana json templates I have seen on the net are setup for a logstash-* “index” ?.
>>>
>>> I’m trying to set Syslog-ng-> ELK up in my “spare time” at work. So time and ease of setup and support community size are big considerations. I want to enable GeoIP for ASA data, NetFlow data and be able to leverage existing templates logstash or patterndb for common applications. Apache, Linux Syslog, Storage syslog, etc…
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>>>> On Apr 20, 2016, at 2:13 PM, Scheidler, Balázs <balazs.scheidler at balabit.com <mailto:balazs.scheidler at balabit.com>> wrote:
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>>>> Can you pls point me to the direction of the logstash material you mentioned? I would be interested in them whether it'd be possible to port them over.
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>>>> On Apr 20, 2016 7:00 PM, "Scot Needy" <scotrn at gmail.com <mailto:scotrn at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>> Some thoughts on my deployment
>>>>
>>>> Logstash
>>>> I think I’m going to need to re-introduce logstash just to leverage the existing open source material of logstash filters and Kibana desktops.
>>>> VMware, ASA for example but wanted more real time data. I could probably do the realtime tags with pattendb.
>>>>
>>>> syslog-ng counters
>>>> We use an IPAM API to create unique filters, log and destination conf files. The goal was to get unique syslog counters for every VLAN realtime directly from syslog-ng-ctl stats..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> @include IPAM-filters
>>>> filter f_192_168_252_0 { netmask(192.168.252.0/24); <http://192.168.252.0/24);>};
>>>> filter f_192_168_253_0 { netmask(192.168.253.0/24); <http://192.168.253.0/24);>};
>>>> filter f_192_168_254_0 { netmask(192.168.254.0/30); <http://192.168.254.0/30);>};
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> @include IPAM-dest.conf
>>>> destination d_192_168_252_0 { file(/opt/syslog-ng/logs/192_168_252_0/$YEAR$MONTH$DAY-$HOUR-$HOST.log);};
>>>> destination d_192_168_253_0 { file(/opt/syslog-ng/logs/192_168_253_0/$YEAR$MONTH$DAY-$HOUR-$HOST.log);};
>>>> destination d_192_168_254_0 { file(/opt/syslog-ng/logs/192_168_254_0/$YEAR$MONTH$DAY-$HOUR-$HOST.log);};
>>>>
>>>> @include IPAM-log.conf
>>>> log { source(s_net); filter(f_192_168_252_0); destination(d_192_168_252_0);};
>>>> log { source(s_net); filter(f_192_168_253_0); destination(d_192_168_253_0);};
>>>> log { source(s_net); filter(f_192_168_254_0); destination(d_192_168_254_0);};
>>>> log { source(s_net); filter(f_192_168_254_4); destination(d_192_168_254_4);};
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Apr 20, 2016, at 11:18 AM, Scot Needy <scotrn at gmail.com <mailto:scotrn at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone have links or care to share notes on making a syslog-ng -> ELK scale for enterprise ?
>>>>>
>>>>> I have some ideas and will gladly share my solution but also don’t want to spend days figuring these things out that have already been built.
>>>>> There are many ELK specific references but I also want to make sure the model fits the syslog workload.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
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